Table 1 Antimicrobial potential of respective AgNPs against selected microbial pathogens. Inhibition is measured as Inhibition Zone diameter in mm (mean ± SD). Amoxycillin and Ketoconazole was used as positive control for bacterial and fungal isolates respectively.
Microorganisms | Ocimum tenuiflorum | Ocimum americanum | Ocimum gratissimum | Negative control | Positive control | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AqE | te-AgNPs | AqE | am-AgNPs | AqE | gr-AgNPs | |||
30 µg | 30 µg | |||||||
E. Coli | 13 ± 1.13 | 14 ± 1.23 | 18 ± 1.42 | 20 ± 1.68 | 13 ± 1.00 | 15 ± 1.03 | – | 19 ± 1.50 |
K. Pneumoniae | 10 ± 0.6 | 13 ± 1.06 | 20 ± 1.5 | 23 ± 1.58 | 12 ± 1.32 | 14 ± 0.67 | – | 18 ± 1.6 |
S. aureus | 12 ± 0.85 | 15 ± 1.15 | 18 ± 0.98 | 22 ± 1.80 | 13 ± 0.51 | 16 ± 1.2 | – | 15 ± 1.05 |
B. Subtilis | 10 ± 0.52 | 12 ± 0.47 | 14 ± 1.14 | 19 ± 1.50 | 8 ± 0.62 | 11 ± 0.54 | – | 13 ± 1.11 |
A. niger | 10 ± 0.87 | 12 ± 0.33 | 21 ± 1.5 | 26 ± 1.85 | 8 ± 0.6 | 15 ± 0.80 | – | 13 ± 0.89 |
C. albicans | 9 ± 0.41 | 11 ± 0.7 | 16 ± 1.4 | 22 ± 1.40 | 9 ± 0.45 | 13 ± 1.05 | – | 13.3 ± 0.9 |
